watchOS 10 has been out as a beta release for about a month now and one thing about it ruins the entire experience for me. The loss of quickly swiping back and forth between your watch faces. Why would Apple do this?
I hate to gripe about this because overall watchOS 10 is a hugely positive upgrade. I love how beautiful the new music and weather screens look. I also appreciate how you can now see what the time stamp is in your podcast when listening. Every app is better now than it was in watchOS 9.
But the loss of being able to swipe back and forth between my watch faces is something that I feel every day. Now, you have to long press on a watch face to be able to swipe to a new watch face. I hate the new method. It takes too long.
I group my complications into specific watch faces. For instance, I have a certain set of complications which I use during my workday and a different group I use in the evening. Instead of going to the home screen to scroll through all of my apps. I was accustomed to swiping right or left to push the desired complication. I can no longer quickly do that.
I literally thought that this must’ve been a temporary bug when I first downloaded watchOS 10. But with the 3rditeration already out, it seems like this was a design decision for the future. Although, I can’t figure out why they would drop this feature.
Could Apple be intending to use the swipe left and right for a different feature in the future? So maybe they are trying to get people out of the habit of using it move between screens ahead of time.
Whatever the reason, It better be really important. Because many of use swiped back and forth between faces all day long. And losing that ability is painful. Apple please bring it back!
But the loss of being able to swipe back and forth between my watch faces is something that I feel every day. Now, you have to long press on a watch face to be able to swipe to a new watch face. I hate the new method. It takes too long.
I group my complications into specific watch faces. For instance, I have a certain set of complications which I use during my workday and a different group I use in the evening. Instead of going to the home screen to scroll through all of my apps. I was accustomed to swiping right or left to push the desired complication. I can no longer quickly do that.
I literally thought that this must’ve been a temporary bug when I first downloaded watchOS 10. But with the 3rditeration already out, it seems like this was a design decision for the future. Although, I can’t figure out why they would drop this feature.
Could Apple be intending to use the swipe left and right for a different feature in the future? So maybe they are trying to get people out of the habit of using it move between screens ahead of time.
Whatever the reason, It better be really important. Because many of use swiped back and forth between faces all day long. And losing that ability is painful. Apple please bring it back!
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